Dish or plate.



No. 730,082. PATBNTED JUNE 2, 1903. J. D. BATES.

DISH OR PLATE.

APPLIOATIORIILED APR. 8. 1000. Mmnwnn nov. 5, 1002.

F21 d lg H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES OFFICE.

,rosnru. ians'rns, 0F wEs'rFi Ln, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Be it knownthat I, JOSEPH D. BATES, a citi zen of the United States ofAmeri' and a. resident of Westfield, in the countyo amp- '5 den andState'of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Dishes or Plates, ofwhich thefollowing is a full, clear, and exactdescription. 4 This'invention relates to an improved plate [0 'orsimilar dish or aclass'com-prising two parts or sections, one of whichis a metallic or otherwise suitably rigid, durable, and permanent holderor support, while" the otherse'ction, which is very thin and may becomposed of. hard, strong, and tough paper and is adapted 'to be nestedinthe holder or permanent section, is for temporary employment. to bethrown away after once 'using'and to be -replaced by another new 'orfresh one the next time the dish is to be used.- I a The improved-dish-is advantageous for the use of campers, picnic parties, or yachtsinen,who are enabled to have satisfactory plates: or dishes for their lunchesor dihnersand to throw away the paper or other thin sections withoutexperiencing any mention'able loss. and to be thereby relieved of theinconvenience of dish-washing. 1 4 The invention is fully describedhereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and is setforth in the claims.

Referring to thedrawings, Figure l-is a planview of theimproved plateor'dish, shown 1 as having. a portion thereof 'broken away and insection for the purpose of increased clearness of illustration. Fig.2 isasectional view taken on line 2 2,.Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is asectional I viewof a stack or tier of therenewable dish sections neste d. Figs. 4 and 5'are perspec-.

ing peculiarly.- recessed form ations .thereof, hereinafter referred.to.a Similar characters of reference indicate corspending parts orformations in -all the views. v 1 In the drawings, A represents thepermanent or base section of the two-part dish, and B represents theinner and renewable section. The said part A may bemade quite thing adff as wide as the maximum width-'ofsaid're-' or veneer plates now incommon use. tive views'of edge portions of the dish,showv p I claim,anddesire to secure by Letters Pat v 9o vantageously of. sheet metal,and of the ordif nary form of a plate or other dish. The parts B arepreferably made .ofpaper,

.being'cut out into the form of disks and by the use .of dies orotherwise formed with an;

upturned marginal portion bto correspond to 5 5 the marginal portion aof the form or permaf nent. dish-section A. The form andxlime'nsions ofthe parts Bare made confer-liable to those of :part A,.so that'fthe .tormer may fit closely withinth "latter, as shown in Figs. 1 6

and 2.;

' Asa means of engagement between the renewabl'e sections or disks andth'eforms or.

base-section the. latter has several marginal recesses d d, the oppositeedges 10 of which are inclined or convergent from the inneredge oftherecess o utwardly, as seen in l1ig. 4,.or:; such inclinations or..convergence may be reversed, as seen in Fig. 5, while there'newabledish-sections B have narginal tabs orears 7b cesses (1, so that whenthesect-ion B is nested 1 in the base-section A said ears maybecrowdedinto andinterlocked with theedgesof said recesses. vTh'is'mafy bereadily done with the 'thumb or'finger.

The inner sections maybe composed of or din'ary paper solely or papertreated by any r of the processes known in the arts for render ing itply of the sections or disks B maybe nested into very compact form'fqrstowage or'trans portation, and their natureis'sueh that they are not-liable to become cracked or .brolren, v as is the case with thewell-known thin woodcu -Q;

A having edge recesses and the renewable inner section Bof paper orlikethin material having outwardly-extending marginal ears f or tabs f,adaptedtoen'gage-in said recesses, substantially as described.

waterproofi or extraordinarily hard and 86 W s l 1' It will beappreciated that aplentiful-snp- 2. As anew articleof-mannfacturethedish ears or tabs ff, for engagement 'in said reorplate composed of the permanent section 0, substantially as described.[0 A having marginal recesses, the opposite Signed by me atSpringfield,Massachusett-s, edges or which are inclined relativelytoeach this 81st day of March, 1900.

3 other, and the renewable paper section B I JOSEPH D. BATES adapted tothe shape and size of the perma- Witnesses: nent section A to be nestedtherewithin, and *WM. S. BELLOWS,

provided with the marginal integrally-formed Wu. W; FOLLEfrT.

